Trema orientalis (Ulmaceae) charcoal tree, gunpowder tree, poison peach

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Species description or overview

Trema orientalis information from PIER
Information on Trema orientalis as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Trema orientalis information from "Common forest trees of Hawaii" 
Information about Trema orientalis is presented with respect to this species being a forest tree in Hawaii. The information on this site is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) 1989 publication by Little and Skolmen entitled "Common forest trees of Hawaii (native and introduced)."

Taxonomy & nomenclature

Trema orientalis information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Trema orientalis--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Trema orientalis information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Trema orientalis, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Trema orientalis
Nomenclatural information about Trema orientalis is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Control methods

Images

Trema orientalis information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Trema orientalis in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Trema orientalis images from PIER
Images of Trema orientalis provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Distribution

Trema orientalis information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Trema orientalis--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) 
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

Books

Full-text articles

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.

Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide
Motooka, Philip, Luisa Castro, Duane Nelson, Guy Nagai, and Lincoln Ching. 2003. Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (University of Hawaii--Manoa), Honolulu. 184 pp. color illus. ISBN: 1-929325-14-2.

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